All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1399
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Young Brums go for it! JRF unwraps its model market-rent complex for singles
After a major research exercise, two architectural competitions and almost 12 months of construction activity, Joseph Rowntree Foundation is ready to test its initiative to develop City Centre Apartments for Single People at Affordable Rents in the marketplace. In October it opened the showhome of its first CASPAR scheme, a ...
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Shopping the retail bombers
Shopping Centre Bomb ThreatsThe British Council of Shopping Centres£34.00Tel. +44 (0) 207 222 1122 Fax. +44 (0) 207 222 4440 First Produced: 1999 Content: 25 Minute video (with 10 page booklet)Don't be put off by the title of this video (Title: Shopping Centre Bomb Threats) as the ...
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PFI housing - Will this prototype have billion pound potential?
Earlier this year the government approved eight pathfinder schemes for submission to Treasury for the renovation or replacement of existing council housing using private investment. Here Chris Bazlinton reviews the newly finished first ever PFI residential scheme and the finance package that built it.
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Back up business
UPS technology protects a business' critical networks. Shri Karve gives advice on what to specify depending on your application.
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Bouncing back
Like the elephant, a new range of garage doors will never forget - their original shape. Made from memory-retentive plastic, these garage doors will flex back when dented.
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New model army
The Movement for Innovation is examining a new model form of partnering as the industry grapples with the aims of last year's Egan report.
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CD-ROM guards against mail call hazards
Check MailScanna Technology Ltd£69.00Date Produced: 1999 Content: CD-ROM Tel: +44 (0) 207 355 3555 Fax: +44 (0) 207 355 3556As Scanna correctly state on their 'Check Mail' CD-ROM, your organisation's risk with regard to mail hazards may be high or low but your risk is certainly not ...
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How va...va...voom drove supplier failures down by 99%
Does the car industry’s approach to quality control from its suppliers offer lessons for homebuilders? Here, in the second of a three-part series on the potential in other business cultures, the marketing consultant looks at some measures showing radical progress.
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PVCU’s pop parade
League tables of window system suppliers show fabricators’ expectations outpacing improvement.
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Let’s twist again
Both London's property prices and the staircases of its newest apartment blocks are spiralling. Wrapping a spiral stair in a round glass tower became an architectural tour de force with Bexhill-on-Sea's 1930s landmark De La Warr Pavilion and other modernist landmarks. Now it is being revived by residential developers to ...
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Social structures
Balanced communities and mixed tenures are the flavour of the month. But do they work? Our contributor has reservations
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Learning the lessons
There's a lot of talk about joined-up thinking in housing policy. But in many areas we simply don't know how housing interacts with other areas - such as education. New research uncovers some of the links
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Councils' lack of interest signals end for DIYSO
Do-it-yourself-shared-ownership again looks in danger of being scrapped for good after councils have shown little interest in funding it
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Corporation says pegging salaries is not within its remit
The Housing Corporation has thrown out independent researchers' proposals to peg the spiralling pay packets of housing association bosses
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Mixed tenure offers few benefits claim residents
The virtues of mixed tenure estates - one of the favourite concepts of the housing sector and the government - have been seriously questioned in the first thorough study into the idea
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Councils warn of £100m shortfall as numbers rise
Home Secretary Jack Straw's framework for housing asylum seekers around Britain was on the brink of financial disaster this week as landlords warned they faced being crippled by massive debts
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Learning zone - Training initiatives for installers
Installers updated on new euro regs A new training course from the Caltrop Consultancy tackles the differences between the new European Standards for intruder alarms and the former British Standards. It also explains the consequences for security installation companies. The course, Implementing European Standards for Intruder Alarms, is ...